Ms: It's My Birthday! (Session 1)

Hi ^^ Officially another year older!

Birthday is THE Time when you have a valid reason to ask your friends to buy you dinners in an atas restaurant and thick face-ly order the most expensive dish from the menu; 

It's THE Time when you are allowed to indulge awesome cakes one after another like nobody's business; 

It's THE Time when you can voice out and demand your boyfriend or girlfriend or friends or even family to buy you that special gift you've always wanted but too kiam siap to buy using your own money; 

It's THE Time when you have the perfect excuse to splurge and buy everything new from head to toe just for that specific date so by the end of the day you won't have to feel guilty for spending money again; 

And it's also THE Time to look back and see what have you achieved and failed over the year and to think what's it gonna be for the upcoming year. Time flies and you can never relive the moments of your past in the future.

Some might think "what's all the fuss about birthdays? It's just another day anyway" but to me, I must celebrate birthdays. Not only mine but friends especially family members's birthdays, doesn't have to be a fancy party but a simple dinner with a cake is a must! The point is to gather every love ones together for some quality time =)

This year, I celebrated my birthday with my melbourne's love ones. Malaysia's love ones I miss you all!!! I chose malaysian cuisine for dinner because whenever we eat out we'll definitely go for korean or japanese or western food but hardly chinese food and I'M CRAVING FOR CRAB! 

 So here we are, at Omah's

Feels a bit like home

Le bosses

 My Mr, got him to wear a blue shirt

To match my dress xD haha

Miniature teapot is cute!

Chilli Crab

Wok fried with semi thick, sweet and savoury tomato and chilli based sauce

Roti Bread

Whenever a Chilli Crab is ordered it must be accompanied with deep fried buns/steamed buns in this case Roti Bread as a side. You dip the buns/breads into the sauce and put it into your mouth with the buns/breads full of sauce. It is so yummy our Roti Bread keep coming non-stop.

Black Pepper Crab

Seasoned and wok fried in fragrant curry leaves then spiced up with cracked black pepper

Omah's Duck

Half deboned duck braised in honey soy, herbs and served with bokchoy

Sweet and Sour Barramundi 

The one and only improvised "cake" of the year for yours truly =D

The "cake" consist of :-

~ Chocolate, Pear, Hazelnut & Caramel Cake (Poached pear & choc hazelnut biscuit / chocolate hazelnut spread / roast pear cream / buttery caramel / vanilla cream / dark chocolate mousse / dark chocolate velvet spray) from Burch & Purchese

~ 3 different flavoured cakes in tube also from Burch & Purchese

   - Raspberry, White Choc, Honey, Lychee (white chocolate & raspberry mousse / raspberry & lychee jelly / muesli & honey oat sponge / raspberry & hibiscus jam / honey lychee syrup / exaggerated raspberry cream / white chocolate velver spray)

   - Explosive Raspberry Milk Chocolate (rasp & milk choc mousse / raspberry custard / raspberry compote / explosive milk choc chip cookie crumb / exaggerated raspberry cream / raspberry marshmallow / milk chocolate mirror glaze)

   - Rhubarb, Raspberry, Ginger, Chocolate (rhubarb compote / raspberry cream / ginger soaked baba / ginger cream / chocolate nitro poached chocolate parfait / raspberry & white chocolate mousse)

~ Two Lychee Soho shots

Ohh gosh imagine all the above ingredients becoming a part of me, summer is coming but my fats are growing too. Have to cut down on eating desserts for a period of time already =( That's so sad, quote our chinese saying "Indulge now and suffer later".

 Thankiuuu dear Mr boyfie for planning my birthday celebration =D

Mr: A Day of Shopping and some Malaysian Touch!

What would be better than starting your day off with some shopping right girls? Hahaha. Well, atleast it works on Ms. Nothing beats having a good shop during a weekend. Its basically like when a bull sees a red cloth, you just cant stop or forbid a girl from shopping. No offence girls, its just a metaphor xD

I'm sure some of you have heard that there are a couple of Direct Factory Outlets (DFO) in Melbourne right? And since we've already been to the one near the city, we've decided to take the trouble and head all the way to the one near the airport at Essendon. We had to take train, transit to another train, then take a bus and walk (10min....ok maybe its 5min ) in order to reach our destination. It took us roughly around 1hour and just so you know, having such a long travelling journey with public transport wasn't pleasant.

And finally, we've arrived and our shopping journey begins! Let start with Ralph Lauren, it totally suck!!! Walking into the Ralph Lauren store was a super big disappointment. We both went in, and came out empty because all they have was size m and above. It was all too big for us. Argghhhh! But on the bright side...save money. Teeheee! =D

To cut things short, we pretty much ended up window shopping the whole time. Ms did bought a couple of things, YAY! But I went home empty which is also a 'YAY!' cos dont have to sakit hati and dompet. Hahaha! After that, we travelled all the way back and decided to eat out on that night and since I was being such a good boyfriend, teman Ms the whole time, walking from shop to shop to shopsss to MORE shopss for the whole afternoon, I got to decide where to eat.

Soo....Laksa King it is! Secretly I knew Ms knew that I would choose Laksa King because I was craving it for such a long time and I kept bugging her to go there and since we were going to passby the place, why not have our dinner there right? So as usual, Laksa King was packed with people as always. And in chinese, there's this saying that represents and reflects such situation which is call 'People-Mountain-People-Sea (人山人海)'. Hahaha! So lame...I know =P

And as usual...I always have to face the same old problem every time I dine in Laksa King, cannot decide what to eat *facepalm* #firstworldproblem

As the name of the restaurant states, Laksa KING, meaning...they are famous for their laksa right? So obviously choosing their laksas is a smart choice and I had it before and I loved it.Well, Laksa King basically serves one of the best laksa in Melbourne. No joke, ask Urbanspoon. BUT at the same time...their other menus were also super duper tempting and I really feel like ordering and eating everything they have *facepalm* #firstworldproblem

In the end, I've decided to get out of my comfort zone and ordered something that I've never tried but always wanted to, Har Mee and thanked god I did because after that, I know I wouldnt have to order that the next time I visit the place. The mee wasnt terrible, it was ok but I would prefer their laksa better, And Ms chose the Stewed "Teo Chew" Rockling Fish Head and it was a yummsss! Ever since we came Melbourne, we hardly got the chance to have fish for our meal. So whenever there is a chance, Ms would order it outside and for this one, Ms totally loved it! You guys should give it a try if you're there.

And that was the end of our night. We will be heading to the winter market again tmr! It is their last night, so if you're in melbourne, you better go, if not you have to wait for a year for the next one. Nights!

Har Mee
Yellow noodles, prawns, pork and egg in prawn broth

Stewed "Teo Chew" Rockling Fish Head 

Stewed rockling fish head with fresh tomatoes, pickled vegetables, chilli and minced ginger in a sour plum sauce garnished with coriander

Guess what was Mr thinking???

Luna 1878 Winter Market

How can one not love market events!? Mr went to the Suzuki Summer Market earlier this year but he didn't know that such winter market exist, not until Ms stumble upon some pictures on the web that caught her attention. This winter market comes alive on every wednesday evening on the month of August and August only! This means that the last time one can experience Luna 1878 Winter Market this year is next wednesday!

Winter market happening at Queen Victoria Market

Things to buy

Music to hear

Anyone tried silent disco?

Seeing peoples dancing, jumping and put their hands in the air without music is quite funny

Hot wine and winter is a combination

Pity Mr's head got cut off xD

Lots and lots of soupy breadsssssssssss!

4 choices of warm soup to fill in your crusty bread

There's a malaysian food stall

This is so SO tempting! We are gonna try this next wednesday =)

 There's also Hungarian street food

Some traditional Spanish food

Fish & Chips perhaps?

A lot of people had the Bigne served with chocolate sauce in their hand

For your after meal desserts

A taste of Poland

Polish dumplings

The tasting platter - Pierogi (Polish dumplings), Placki (Polish potato pancakes) and Babcia's Sauerkraut (Polish sausage, dill pickle and home-made beetroot & horseradish dip on melba toast)

This caught Mr's attention

Super big pan filled with lots and lots and lots of meatballssssssssss

Look at the queue

Meatballs with fries and bacon on bun

Mr had a hard time figuring out how to eat his meatball bun

Standing tables to enjoy your meal

There's also seating tables if you've got children

Fire place to warm you up on a chilly night

Everyone's attracted to the aroma of freshly made waffles

Us included

Mr's waffle with ice cream, chocolate syrup, banana and almond flake

Ms had her waffle with nutella and maple syrup

Beer battered fries

Greedy Ms had the fries all for herself

We haven't had enough of what the winter market has to offer and so we will be going back for more this coming wednesday. Mind you, it's the last day!! So save yourself the hassle to cook dinner and just head down to Queen Victoria Market for a taste of everything yum =D Be warned, the queue for yummy food is preeeeeetty long.